Chicken Buttermilk Biscuit Egg & Cheese
by Jimmy Dean
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0077900003172 · Jimmy Dean · Sandwiches. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Chicken Buttermilk Biscuit Egg & Cheese by Jimmy Dean scores 95/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 67 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 1 ingredient is flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 67-component record, beginning with Boneless Skinless Chicken Breasts With Rib Meat, Water, Wheat Flour. That density can include amounts and label fragments, so verify the physical label before relying on ingredient order or completeness. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.
- 95/100
- Safe safety score
- 1
- One flagged · of 67 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- D
- Nutri-Score nutrition grade
Computed directly from OpenFoodFacts ingredient data cross-referenced with FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings. See our methodology for the scoring formula.
Composite profile score
One verdict from three independent sources
60/100
Grade C+
Ingredient Safety
95/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
D
Nutri-Score front-of-pack nutrition grade
Weighted 50% ingredient safety / 25% processing level / 25% nutrition grade. A dimension with no data for this product (common: source coverage is partial) is dropped and its weight redistributes across the remaining dimensions, so missing data never silently lowers the score. See the full benchmark table.
00003172 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Chicken Buttermilk Biscuit Egg & Cheese label screening desk
17 of 67 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Caramel Coloring). Source sheet 00003172 · Open Food Facts · July 2026. The screening score and flag counts are in the verdict band above. This desk is the provenance stamp, not a second scorecard. Methodology · Read with nearest score peer: SALTED CARAMEL BITES · Nearest score peer is SALTED CARAMEL BITES at the same screening score.
Screening model notes
How Nutri-Score, NOVA, and list length read this record
Within the four-tier shelf-label framework this site publishes, the composite for this product falls in the highest band. That band is defined by a threshold on the derived score alone: it is where labels land once components carrying caution-or-worse registry ratings contribute little or nothing to the deduction. The band is a summary of what the screened registries return for the components that were parsed, so it inherits their coverage gaps — a component absent from both registries neither raises nor lowers the figure. The threshold and the weighting behind it are set out on the methodology page.
This label falls in the fourth Nutri-Score band. The model arrives there when its penalty terms — energy density, sugars, saturated fat, sodium — carry more weight in the calculation than the fibre, protein and produce content it credits. The band covers a wide span of the points scale, so position within it is not visible from the letter alone. The grade reflects the declared nutrition panel and is unrelated to the additive ratings listed below, which come from different bodies applying different criteria.
The declared list is among the longer ones in this catalogue. A component set this wide means the screen returns many individual ratings, and the composite accumulates a large number of small contributions instead of turning on a handful of entries. At this length the per-component table below is substantially more informative than the single figure, because the figure compresses a great deal of variation into one number.
Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood
How It Compares to Its Category
Among the 1,373 products we've scored in the Sandwiches category, the average safety score is 88.9/100. Chicken Buttermilk Biscuit Egg & Cheese scores 6.1 points above that category average (95/100 vs. 88.9/100), so it is a comparatively strong pick for shoppers screening within that category specifically, rather than against the product catalog as a whole.
Ingredient-list length vs other Sandwiches products
Chicken Buttermilk Biscuit Egg & Cheese lists 67 ingredients on its label
67 85th percentile a longer ingredient list than 85% of the 1,215 products we track
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Source Open Food Facts, product label ingredient lists · July 2026
Ingredient-list length is a descriptive property of the label, not a safety rating. A longer list is not automatically worse and a shorter one is not automatically better; the count is shown so the label can be placed against a comparable population. The comparison here runs against the 1,215 Sandwiches products we publish with a parsed label, not against the whole catalogue, because list length varies far more between categories than within one.
Ingredient Safety Analysis
How the 95/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (1 flagged of 67 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Breaded Chicken Patty: Boneless skinless chicken breasts with rib meat, water, wheat flour, enriched wheat flour (enriched with niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), caramel color, chicken broth, dextrose, extractives of black pepper, extractives of paprika, garlic powder, leavening (sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium bicarbonate), modified food starch, natural flavor, salt, sodium phosphates, spices (including celery seed), sugar, tricalcium phosphate, wheat gluten, yeast, yeast extract, vegetable oil. Buttermilk Biscuit: Water, enriched bleached wheat flour (contains bleached wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), palm oil, dried buttermilk, soy fiber, sugar, leavening (sodium aluminum phosphate, monocalcium phosphate), sodium bicarbonate, dextrose, salt, natural and artificial butter flavor, potassium sorbate (preservative), DATEM, natural and artificial sautéed butter type flavor, xanthan gum. Fully Cooked Egg Patty: Whole eggs, nonfat milk, soybean oil, modified corn starch, salt, xanthan gum, natural and artificial butter flavor (soybean oil, butter, lipolyzed butter oil, natural and artificial flavors), citric acid. Pasteurized Process American Cheese: Milk, water, cream, cheese culture, citric acid, color added, enzymes, potassium citrate, salt, sodium citrate, sorbic acid (preservative), soy lecithin, tetrasodium pyrophosphate. Contains: Egg, milk, soy, wheat. Contains bioengineered food ingredients.
Other products containing Natural And Artificial Sautéed Butter Type Flavor
Natural And Artificial Sautéed Butter Type Flavor is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 3 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Chicken Buttermilk Biscuit Egg & Cheese
Neighbours outside Jimmy Dean with screening scores in the same high band as Chicken Buttermilk Biscuit Egg & Cheese (95/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Jimmy Dean; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (1 flagged of 67 on 0077900003172).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (67 on 0077900003172).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Caramel Coloring is the first flagged ingredient selected from Chicken Buttermilk Biscuit Egg & Cheese's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 67-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Caramel Coloring. Open Caramel Coloring
- Compare Chicken Buttermilk Biscuit Egg & Cheese's 1 flagged ingredients with a product from the same score neighbourhood. Compare labels
- Check how caution flags contribute to the derived screening score before drawing a dietary conclusion. Read the method
This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.
Barcode 0077900003172: product data from Open Food Facts (July 2026). Screening from FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine where attached. Figures are computed from those sources, not editor-typed. Methodology. Reference only, not dietary or medical advice.